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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland works exceptionally hard to take us into a dream world – but does it truly transport our hearts and minds elsewhere? In the Australian Ballet’s trippy take on the Lewis Carroll tale, we journey with Alice from quaint Oxford gardens to deep under the sea; then to a sausage factory with
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Humphrey Bower reviews the following shows from Dance Massive held at various venues in Melbourne, March 12-24: Luke George and Collaborators, Public Actions Atlanta Eke, The Tennis Piece Stephanie Lake, The Skeleton Tree Marrugeku, Le Dernier Appel/The Last Cry Joel Bray, Biladurang Russell Dumas, Cultural Residues 2020 * How can dance intervene in the world? And
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Grimy zombies getting down to the pulsating beat of late night parties was the audience favourite at the opening of Sydney Dance Company’s new triple bill. Melanie Lane’s Woof (pictured above) is really about individual and collective behaviour but it’s a thrilling dance work flush with wit and invention. Woof is the final treat in Rafael Bonachela’s typically well-structured program, which
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Cinderella might be an age old fairy tale, but the sentiment rings true today. A young woman is trapped in slavery and treated abysmally. While the rich around her have power and mobility, she can only dream of a better life as she fights to survive. However, where the story veers from reality is that unlike
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My thinking, for some years now, is that as one nears ‘the end’, a round of applause is owed. For getting through, if nothing else. I love that Stephanie Lake’s newest work, Skeleton Tree: 13 meditations on death and loss, begins with just such an ovation. What follows is a series of reflections we are
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WOMADelaide: Adelaide’s leading music festival opens on March 8 for three days and four nights. Program manager Annette Tripodi talks with Murray Bramwell about this year’s line-up. It is a fact of life for annual festivals that no sooner has one taken its final curtain than next year’s model, not only begins, but is well
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We should see more of Shaun Parker. Five years in the making, his outstanding new, all-male dance work was over within 90 mesmerising minutes. Parker reportedly got little development support and no major festival gig, but this premiere of King stands tall within the current Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras program. His company is well travelled
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Nouveau Cirque de Vietnam, Lang Toi; Gideon Obarzanek, One Infinity Lang Toi: My Village is a contemporary circus work about traditional Vietnamese village life created and directed by Vietnamese juggler Tuan Le in collaboration with French-born but Vietnam-raised brothers and co-creators Nguyen Nhat Ly (who is also musical director) and Nguyen Lân Maurice (Artistic Director)
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By Shane Murphy
Tonight is a bit of a first for me, an opera and ballet in one piece performed as part of the Midsumma Festival. Composer Evan Lawson’s aim is to review the Orpheus myth by emphasising the relationship between Orpheus and his lover Calais, in contrast to the usual story that revolves around the tragic love tale
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By Daily Review
Proving there’s more to Tasmania’s art scene than Mona, the state-wide festival Ten Days on the Island returns for its 10th edition in March. And this time around, the biennial event has a whole new format: across three separate weekends, three different regions will each get a turn in the spotlight. Each district has its
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